Re: [SOLVED] Debian Etch/XFCE4.4 rc2 - thunar volman won't install

Well and is libexo-hal-0.3.so.0 indeed missing in /usr/local/lib? If so, maybe you don't have the hal build files on your system. You can check this by running the ./configure in exo, there will be a line like this at the end: HAL support: no/yes.

Hal support is indeed not enabled in i386 build (it is for ppcbuilds) on debian.corsac.net. I won't rebuild Xfce 4.4 for i386with exo hal support enabled, as I don't really have currentlyenough power to do that more than once in a while.

But ema has begun to upload Xfce 4.4 package to experimental, soexo (with hal support enabled) is available on Debian Experimentalpackages.

If you want to test it, add experimental sources to your/etc/apt/sources.list:

Re: [SOLVED] Debian Etch/XFCE4.4 rc2 - thunar volman won't install

The problem with XFCE startup dissolved into nothing: After installing and using IceWM the entire afternoon, including Thunar and thunar-volman, logging out and logging back in choosing XFCE session on the session manager did the trick.